hàn

the Chinese people, Chinese language

DEFINITIONS

漢 hàn
  • Han ethnic group
  • Chinese (language)
  • the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
  • man

WORDS

shén hàn sorcerer
qín hàn the Qin (221-207 BC) and Han (206 BC-220 AD) dynasties
第二次字簡化方案 dì èr cì hàn zì jiǎn huà fāng àn Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (second round of simplified Chinese characters, proposed in 1977 and retracted in 1986); abbr. to 二簡|二简[er4 jian3]
鐵路 yuè hàn tiě lù Canton-Hankou Railway, linking Guangzhou and Wuchang, incorporated since 1957 into the Jing-Guang Railway 京廣鐵路|京广铁路[Jing1 Guang3 Tie3 lu4]
字 tǒng hàn zì Unihan; China Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs; abbr. for 中日韓統一表意文字|中日韩统一表意文字[Zhong1 Ri4 Han2 tong3 yi1 biao3 yi4 wen2 zi4]
綠林好 lǜ lín hǎo hàn true hero of Greenwood (refers to popular hero in Robin Hood style)
luó hàn abbr. for 阿羅漢|阿罗汉[a1 luo2 han4]
拳 luó hàn quán luohan quan; arhat boxing (kungfu style)
果 luó hàn guǒ monk fruit, the sweet fruit of Siraitia grosvenorii, a vine of the Curcubitaceae family native to southern China and northern Thailand, used in Chinese medicine
病 luó hàn bìng snail fever (bilharzia or schistosomiasis), disease caused by schistosome parasitic flatworm
肚 luó hàn dù potbelly
豆 luó hàn dòu broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean; same as 蠶豆|蚕豆
魚 luó hàn yú flowerhorn cichlid
羅賓 luó bīn hàn Robin Hood (English 12th century folk hero)
老子英雄兒好,老子反動兒混蛋 lǎo zi yīng xióng ér hǎo hàn , lǎo zi fǎn dòng ér hún dàn If the father is a hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is a bastard. (Cultural Revolution slogan); fig. like father, like son
lǎo hàn old man; I (an old man referring to himself)
脫空 tuō kōng hàn liar
yīng hàn English-Chinese
對譯 yīng hàn duì yì English-Chinese parallel text
英雄好 yīng xióng hǎo hàn heroes
莊稼 zhuāng jia hàn peasant; farmer
mǎng hàn fool; muddlehead; boor
shǔ hàn Shu Han (c. 200-263), Liu Bei's kingdom in Sichuan during the Three Kingdoms, claiming legitimacy as successor of Han
chǔn hàn fool; ignoramus; dullard
西 xī hàn Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-8 AD), also called 前漢|前汉[Qian2 Han4], Former Han Dynasty